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“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“Reach what you cannot”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis